dam you steal my booot install idea

Kwikrr looks a heap better with the chrome mont touch, definately breaks up the green a bit.

Boot install coming alond nicely also, keep up the good work mate

Thanks KWIKXR. I'll start with the floor first. I'm trying not to spend any more money on the car, but you aren't helping

How much weight do you reckon all the MDF will add? I'm hoping it will lower the back a bit more for me

Thanks dahayes, yeah its getting there mate, still needs a lot of work though


No worries mate, glad i could help

The MDF does weigh quite a bit on its own so should drop the a** end a tad which i am also hoping for lol. To prevent it from adding to much dead weight i removed the towbar assembly to kind of balance it out, but it probably didn't make much difference. Wouldnt have a clue how much it will all add in dead weight though, will be interesting to find out

Yeah I'm keen to find out too.

After looking over your photos again, I think a normal Chrome EL Fairmont grille would look perfect on your car, with the colour coded centre. I love the look, but the grille isn't doing it for me. The body looks so straight though!

If i can find an EL Monty grill i'll try it, spent a great deal on getting the EF one chromed so im a little reluctant to remove it . I actually always wanted one, just haven't come across one that was up for grabs..

I don't know why, but EL Fairmont's are quite rare in NZ. I have not yet seen one at pick a part in all my years of going there. I must say the EL grill goes well on your EF mate, i actually prefer it over the EF one you had on too.

I have a Chrome EL Monty grille here matey. It's a little on the damaged side mind you... Not that bad... Actually, it's in better nick than my grille after someone smashed the corner in, so may just decide on keeping it.

I just hate the idea of everyone thinking I have a dizzy under the hood though... Although those EL monty grills are nice.... ...........

Haha quite funny. I too am in the process of getting an EL Fairmont grille for my EF.

Top work as always KWIK.

I prefer it too, probably my favourite change on the outside. Totally changes the look of the car. The EF Grille was too plain with the white. It was really chipped too, so this was a cheap and easy fix.

Woah, i completely missed the last three replies..


U lucky bugger!!

Hold on to that grill EL Fairmont grill mate, i reckon it will be hard to find another. That sucks to hear about the chrome grill on Futurlane, i remember reading about that in your build thread. Chuck the EL grill on it i say, it would suit Futurlane very well


Cheers buddy

Jeez these EL grills are popular aren't they.


I agree with that completely, the EL does change the whole look of the front end. The painted EF grill does look a little to boring, thats one reason why i chose to chrome mine. I reckon if i had found an EL grill cheap i would of gone that way though. Now that i've already had the EF one chromed, theres no going back

Well, i finally got around to installing my "Response" splits i got from Jaycar a few weeks ago. Took up the good part of a weekend getting everything in and all wired up.

Cleaned up the amp, came out looking like new..

Before

After


A shot of the amp mounted up..

Space at the rear with the seat all the way forward


Decided to mount the crossovers in the map pockets so i drilled a hole in each of the map pockets so that i could run the wiring through the hole and into the door. What a b**ch of a job this was when it came time for refitting the door trims. I dread the day i ever have to remove the door trims again

Anyway, got it all sussed out. Mounted the tweeters on the sail behind the mirrors, mounted the woofer in place and refitted the door trims. Screwed the crossovers in place and presto.




Now that they are all in and running, all i can say is WOW!! I can't believe how much difference a good set of splits amped properly makes to the front stage. It completely s**t all over my cheapo splits i had running off the headunit, that's for sure.

The woofers produce some very tight punchy midbass notes, much better than what i had before and the highs are bloody awesome, i am running the Response tweeters at 0db attenuation at the moment, and they are running along with the other tweeters i have mounted in the cowl panel so it's very, very clear up front - funnily enough, the tweeters don't even sound harsh at all, it's just clean, crisp sound. Have angled the tweeter to face the opposite side headrest and the staging is pretty much spot on. Jeez, it's bloody loud now too, i can easily turn up the volume more and more without distortion, i think i may need to look at upgrading the sub and amp later on to keep up with the front stage

great result in the end mate, amp came up a million bucks!

amp looks sick! much better then what it originally was. personally wouldnt have put the cross overs there would have probly hid them but thats not always easy, but good work any way!
cant wait to get some money in the bank so i can start my sound system.

What model splits are they? And how did you mount the amp? Excellent work, looks very neat.

Cheers man!! Yeah the amp came out looking pretty after a quick sand and a few coats of gloss black. I could easily flog it off for double the price i paid for it if i ever feel like upgrading

The amp goes well for what it is, and now looks the part so i can't complain


Thanks dude!! Definitely, the amp looks heaps better than it's washed up condition it was in before. Regarding the crossovers, i did plan on mounting them under the seat but seeing as the crossover units themselves are vented, not fully sealed, dust would have built up inside the unit very quick. Thought about putting them in the dash somewhere, but they are just too bloody big

I had to resort to the map pockets which i didn't really want to do, but it's a pretty practical place to mount them for me. That area doesn't get much dust build up and the crossovers are pretty easy to remove if i ever play around with tweeter attenuation settings. I plan on getting a set of LTD door trims sometime in the future so i may relocate the crossover when the new trims go in.


Thanks buddy!! The splits are the 6" Kevlar Response ones. Model is CS-2327. Great set of splits for the price IMO. I did actually plan on going with a set of Alpine Type S splits for the front as i liked the sound of them, but these came up at a bargain price which i couldn't say no to. Glad i did snap them up though, they sound awesome with the music i listen to. Apparently some of the Response gear (splits, coaxials etc) have now been discontinued or something which is why they had a massive clearance on the Response range of speaker last month.

The amp is just mounted to an MDF board, placed underneath the carpet. So i have the amp screwed through the carpet and into the MDF board underneath, this way the amp stays perfectly in position and you don't have to worry about drilling holes into the floor or anything